It implies that decision making cannot be based only on objective data but must necessarily involve a value judgment (e.g., the choice of the most preferable alternative is made also upon weighting of the aspects which are given priority by the decision maker).
Literature searches were conducted to assemble data on previously established and tested regimens which were given priority.
A transformation which entails a change from a mastery teaching which is giving priority to the appropriate act of delivering teaching to learners to what Richards (2010) calls "learner-focused teaching".
Participants' availability to do outreach was limited by their other priorities, which were given precedence.
Indeed, a microlensing experiment to look for planets was to be part of a new NASA spacecraft known as Wfirst, which was given the highest priority by a prestigious National Academy of Sciences panel last summer.
Infrastructure, long ignored, was given priority.
Second, in the group merging process of CPA, a priority value is assigned for each two completely adjacent groups, which is given by priority = k1 1- α) + k2β + R, where k1 and k2 are coefficients, α indicates the level of equivalence between these two groups, β is the ratio of energy in these two groups to the total energy of the entire network, R is a random value uniformly distributed in [0,1].
It is important to note that the announcements encourage new collaborations, which are given higher priority than funding for existing partnerships.
The programme completed a number of necessary but unplanned activities, which were given corporate priority.
The main reason may be that air pollution co-exists with other important public health problems, such as communicable diseases, vector-borne diseases, malnutrition and poor sanitation, which are given higher priority in circumstances where economic resources are limited.
Ecologistas en Accion, another green organization, supports the demolition of illegal chiringuitos but also says that picking on them causes "a smoke screen" to "distract attention from high-impact problems," which should be given priority, according to a press note.
